Fojnica - Town known for its natural beauties and thermal water rehabilitation center. Includes a brief history and photo galleries.
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Fojnica We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Fojnica
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Fojnica Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Fojnica
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Fojnica Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Fojnica
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Fojnica There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Fojnica
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Fojnica I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Fojnica
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Fojnica Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Fojnica
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Fojnica "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Fojnica
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Fojnica Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Fojnica
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Fojnica When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Fojnica
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Fojnica Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Fojnica
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Fojnica "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Fojnica
